Enjoy It For What It Is

Rating: 9/10 (25 October 2013)

If you don't like big dumb action movies, CGi driven films, Manga, Sci- fi, etc, then you will not like this film. The script is fairly predictable, with the acting somewhat flat and derivative.
But if you do like any of the aforementioned genres, what we have here is a film that is literally big on action, scale, effects and sci fi, and genuinely unique. It is not a sequel; does not get bogged down by officially borrowing source material from any previous book, series or lore (other than it's similarities with Manga Neon Genesis Envangelion). In a golden year of original sci-fi movies, this one stands out as being a true piece of entertainment.
The battles are impressive, with skyscraper tall robots fighting monsters. The key thing with these fights is that the sense of scale is brilliantly conveyed to the audience. Powerful yet lumbering, something that the increasingly poor Transformers films failed to provide in their fast blur robot battles.
SO the script is predictable, but who cares? The point of this sort of film, is to entertain for a couple of hours. Which this does. If the script and acting was tighter, I would have given this film top marks.